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Baldness Gene Discovered — 1 In 7 Men "At Risk"
FiReaNGeL writes "Researchers conducted a genome-wide association study of 1,125 Caucasian men who had been assessed for male pattern baldness. They found two previously unknown genetic variants on chromosome 20 that substantially increased the risk of male pattern baldness. They then confirmed these findings in an additional 1,650 Caucasian men. 'If you have both the risk variants we discovered on chromosome 20 and the unrelated known variant on the X chromosome, your risk of becoming bald increases sevenfold. What's startling is that one in seven men have both of those risk variants.'" So maybe gene therapy will finally have a real purpose.
Mom?
I hope I'm not the only one misreading the title as "Badness gene found".
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"How lovely you are. So lovely in my straightjacket..." - Nny
This is un-American! This is going to kill jobs, because wig makers will go out of business! Damn commie scientists!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Says the haired guy. Down with haired people! Rise my brethren and let our bald heads shine under the sun...
With a bald pate, you'd have a better platform to mount a black silicon solar cap to power your wireless cranial Internet connection. C'mon, geeks, see the possibilites here! When life hands you shit, make shit sandwiches!
First they find the monogomy gene and then they find the baldness gene. How much longer before women insist on genetic pre-screening before they put out?
we all know what will happen if we let our scientists focus on hair-loss
Sure, all research is good, but really - who as a kid thinks "I want to cure baldness"? Really, aren't there more pressing areas for research money?
And they found the premature ejaculation gene.
Such important stuff! And people were complaining about pink ribbons a little while back, about how research is so female oriented...yeah.
God only made so many beautiful heads; the others he covered with hair.
Reading your comment brings up images from an old comedy western where a tribesman raises his tomahawk while grabbing the hair of his adversary, the toupee comes off the guys head and the tribesman dances about in loud celebration holding the toupee up as a sign of his victory.
It's not a defect, it's a feature!
+1 Appropriate sig.
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1 in 7 suffer from the baldness gene. The rest suffer from marriage.
They need to find the genes that cause bald men to spend hundreds or even thousands on a toupee that looks like a dyed dead rat while insisting that it looks real and that people can't tell.
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Since Captain Picard is bald in the 23rd century it appears this idea went nowhere.
Reminds me of a phrase on some cups in a tacky UK seaside resort - "It's not a bald-patch, it's a solar panel for a love machine"
Ummm, and how is a shit sandwich better than shit? Are you perhaps running for government (after all, they often seem to "resolve" shitty situations by creating different forms of shitty situations).
Look if you are starting to go bald you had might as well
get used to it because no matter what you
eat or do your hair is as good as gone.
You will not mind being bald anyhow it makes
life much simpler. I have my head shaved to the
skin every month or two. No need for shampoo
conditioner and all that crap just rub a bar
of soap across like the rest of your body
an you are good to go.
I'm trying to figure out your poem. There doesn't appear to be any consistent rhythm, nor do the words for which you chose to end each line rhyme or even come close to rhyming. There's no significant use of metaphor, imagery, and so on. Can you help?
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It's nature's way of telling a man to hurry up and settle down with a woman instead of being a playboy all his life. If you're still acting the playboy while your hairline is receding, the pressure's on to find a mate that you want to raise kids with. Hence, the baldness gene remains in the gene pool. That's my theory anyway.
(No funny mods please, I'm being serious.)
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Ah finally, we can use gene therapy to cure all those afflicted people. Now everyone can be bald!
This discussion reminds me of a bald friend of mine.
He used to get all the weirdo baldness "Cures" around when he was younger(Mostly in jest).
The funniest one he got, was a sink plunger/unblocker, with a tube of ointment. He was supposed to rub the cream in then use the plunger on his head to pull the hair up......